LEGO® Minifigure A Visual History

by Gregory Farshtey, Daniel Lipkowitz, Simon Hugo

Celebrate the epic journey of the LEGO® minifigure. Features an exclusive orange spaceman!

Enter the world of minifigures with this fully updated edition. The first minifigure was created in 1978, and today the entire minifigure population could circle the globe more than five times!

Starring more than 2,000 of the most popular and rarest minifigures from the LEGO® Minifigure Series and themes including LEGO® NINJAGO®, THE LEGO® MOVIE™, LEGO® Star Wars™, LEGO® City, LEGO® Harry Potter™, and many more.

From astronauts and vampires to Super Heroes and movie characters, feast your eyes on the most awesome minifigures of every decade!

©2020 The LEGO Group.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Pop Culture, History

256 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2020

Reviews

[Beorn · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a nice trip through the history of Lego themes and minifigures!

[MK · Rating 3 out of 5]

Since the 1970s, Lego has created countless products with various motifs such as occupations, ethnic costumes, and movie characters.

The three that I liked the most were “Egyptian nemes headdress” (page 70) from 1998, “Ninja throwing star” (page 72), and “Emperor Palpatine” (page 138) from the 2008 Star Wars series.

It's very interesting to pay close attention to details such as Lego's costumes, hairstyles, and color schemes. It's difficult to collect them all, but if you purchase this book, you can enjoy Lego World.

[Nichola · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yeah, I know. But there is a lot of text here covering years and years of tiny steps forward (couldn't resist) in how and why they choose what to produce here. I actually bookmarked it several times and came back because I wanted to know more. It helped that the jillions of pictures included stuff I had grown up with and shared with young people. The first skin tone, the first licensed figures, the first time one had a two-sided face, or a custom molded head.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yeah. I'm an AFOL. What of it?

This is a fun little overview of the history of LEGO minifigures from the first, blocky figures with no faces in the early days of LEGO, to the first real minifigure in 1978, up through the figure that's included with the book in 2020. Of course it doesn't have pictures of every single minifig. That would be a much bigger book. And I'm pretty sure it's written for younger LEGO fans. But whatever. It's a lot of fun to see some of the ingenious ways that the designers have come up with to convey character, all within the confines of a minifigure. (There are some figures that aren't considered actual minifigs. Some of those are shown, too, but they're added sort of as footnotes along the way.)

If you love LEGO, this book is for you. If not, move along. Move along.

[Garrett Emile · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lego makes a lot of minifigure encyclopedias, but this one is one of the better ones, with dates and stories behind a lot of the figures. It’s all stuff you could find on Wikipedia, but it’s neat to have as a book.

[Olle Moquist · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would have wished the book delved more into actual minifigure history instead of the surface level facts. If I wanted to know what figure first wore a pirate hat I could just go into the bricklink catalogue for free.

[Chad · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lot of fun to page through! Very nostalgic. Large pages with close-up photos of minifigures and accessories, and photos of some sets. 2 pages for each year from 1978 to 2020.

[Adam Sharman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice way to get some basic information about some of the LEGO Minifigures over the years. I really enjoyed reading about all the different minifigures and where they fit in.

[Caleb Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Look, it’s not Middlemarch but if you want a book full of pictures of LEGO minifigs, you really can’t do better than this.

[Jesse VanDeWalker · Rating 4 out of 5]

By no means a comprehensive guide, but it hits all the major milestones! Or would it be milebricks...

[Twan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good lads

[Michał Bukowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Edukacyjna, ale i pełna humoru, historia minifigurek Lego. Stanowi też inspiracje do budowy nowych konstrukcji z klocków, będących dopełnieniem różnorodnych figurek.

[PottWab Regional Library]

SM

[Wanda ❣️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was actually so fun to look through

[Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read for Lego fans, feel it was abit too kiddy at times unlike many of DKs other books.